Reproduction
Object numberRCSHC/P 1346
Scientific nameHomo sapiens
CollectionHunterian
CategoryWet preparations
Object nameBladder, Urethral stricture, Bladder Calculi, Morbid Anatomy of the Bladder, Mounted wet tissue
DescriptionA bladder with the prostate gland, containing a large bladder stone.
The bladder is enlarged and elongated, while the prostate gland is also markedly enlarged. The mucous membrane of the bladder has become ulcerated and shreddy, with the raised muscular fasciculi producing a mesh-like surface.
Production date Estimated 1760 - Estimated 1793
Preparator
Owner/user
presented
Physical Location
LocationOn display in the Hunterian Museum, Room 4: The Long Gallery
Physical Information
Physical descriptionWet preparation of tissue mounted in a cuboid perspex container.
Materialperspex
Dimensions
whole height: 243 mm
whole width: 114 mm
whole depth: 76 mm
whole weight: 2344 g
whole width: 114 mm
whole depth: 76 mm
whole weight: 2344 g
Bibliography
SourceProger 1966-1972
Vol. 2, pages 191-2.
TranscriptA bladder, containing a large calculus. The bladder is enlarged and remarkably elongated; its mucous membrane is ulcerated and shreddy; the hypertrophied muscular fasciculi stand out in prominent ridges upon its surface, forming a kind of coarse network, through some of the meshes of which sacculi of the other coats had begun to form. The prostate glad is enlarged to nearly three times its natural size. The calculus appears to have been held above it in the elongated and contracted bladder.
